Media and Communication

Papers
(The TQCC of Media and Communication is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Managing Organisational Tensions in Cross-Sector Collaboration: The Case of Mediapolis52
Media Coverage as Mirror or Molder? An Inference-Based Framework48
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A Transnational Network Analysis of Refugees in Crisis42
(De)Legitimation in Policy Transfer and Branding: A Dialogical View of the Romanian Covid-19 Vaccination Policy39
On the Continued Need for Replication in Media and Communication Research32
What “Real” Women Want: Alt-Right Femininity Vlogs as an Anti-Feminist Populist Aesthetic28
“I bet she’s ‘not like other girls’”: Discursive Construction of the Ideal Gaming Woman on r/GirlGamers27
“They Always Get Our Story Wrong”: Addressing Social Justice Activists’ News Distrust Through Solidarity Reporting26
WhatsApp, Polarization, and Non-Conventional Political Participation: Chile and Colombia Before the Social Outbursts of 201925
The EU as an ATM? Media Perception Analysis of Next Generation Funds in Spain25
From Global Village to Identity Tribes: Context Collapse and the Darkest Timeline25
Vulnerability to Disinformation in Relation to Political Affiliation in North Macedonia24
Follow the Data! A Strategy for Tracing Infrastructural Power24
Negotiating Care Work: Gendered Network Structures of Pandemic Care Discourses on Twitter in Germany23
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Contentious Politics in a Digital World: Studies on Social Activism, Protest, and Polarization20
Using Comics as a Media Literacy Tool for Marginalised Groups: The Case of Athens Comics Library20
Digital Media Domestication and Job Paths Among Older People: An Ethnographic Investigation19
Exploring Teenagers’ Folk Theories and Coping Strategies Regarding Commercial Data Collection and Personalized Advertising19
Bringing the Future to Geomedia Studies: Geomedia as Sociotechnical Regime and Imaginary18
Post-Truth as a Mutation of Epistemology in Journalism18
Stuck With the Algorithm: Algorithmic Consciousness and Repertoire in Fridays for Future’s Data Contention17
Ideologies in Geospatial Futurism: A Computational and Critical Discourse Inquiry Into the ArcGIS and ESRI-Blogs17
Media-Tech Companies as Agents of Innovation: From Radical to Incremental Innovation in a Cluster17
Migrants as “Objects of Care”: Immigration Coverage in Russian Media During the Covid-19 Pandemic17
Venture Philanthropy, Local News, and the Murky Promise of Innovation17
Planners Becoming Visualizers in the Mediatized World: Actor-Network Analysis of Cairo’s Street Billboards17
From Chiapas to Palestine: Historicizing Social Movement Media Before and Beyond the Arab Uprisings16
The Awkward Moment When You Agree With News Outlets That You Normally Distrust16
Humor That Harms? Examining Racist Audio-Visual Memetic Media on TikTok During Covid-1916
Barriers to Participation in Polarized Online Discussions About Covid-19 and the Russo-Ukrainian War16
Cartographies of Resistance: Counter-Data Mapping as the New Frontier of Digital Media Activism16
Precariousness and Hope: Digital Everyday Life of the Undocumented Migrants Explored Through Collaborative Photography15
Media Control and Citizen-Critical Publics in Russia: Are Some “Pigs” More Equal Than Others?15
How China Divides the Left: Competing Transnational Left-Wing Alternative Media on Twitter15
Do Intensive Public Debates on Direct-Democratic Ballots Narrow the Gender Gap in Social Media Use?15
The Eurabia Conspiracy Theory: Twitter’s Political Influencers, Narratives, and Information Sources15
Legal and Ethical Regulation in Slovakia and Its Relation to Deliberative Communication15
Instaworthy? Examining the Effects of (Targeted) Civic Education Ads on Instagram15
How Do Chinese Media Frame Arab Uprisings: A Content Analysis15
Feminist Stereotypes and Women’s Roles in Spanish Radio Ads14
Keep the Fire Burning: Exploring the Hierarchies of Music Fandom and the Motivations of Superfans14
Between Conflict and Solidarity: Pandemic Media Coverage of Romanian Intra-EU Labour Migrants14
More Than Meets the Eye: Understanding Political Microtargeting Processing With Gaze-Cued Retrospective Think-Aloud Methodology14
Mobile News Consumption and Its Relation to Young Adults’ Knowledge About and Participation in Referendums14
Let’s Get Loud: Intersectionally Studying the Super Bowl’s Halftime Show13
A Computational Mapping of Online News Deserts on African News Websites13
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Tethered Disparities: Adolescent Smartphone Use in Rural and Urban China13
Politicisation Persists and Is Increasing in European Public Service Media in the Digital Society12
Local Journalism With State Support12
Deserted Local News: Exploring News Deserts From a Journalistic Recruitment Perspective12
Fighting Deepfakes: Media and Internet Giants’ Converging and Diverging Strategies Against Hi-Tech Misinformation11
Women Scientists on TikTok: New Opportunities to Become Visible and Challenge Gender Stereotypes11
The multilingual Twitter-discourse on vaccination in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic11
The Infrastructure of News: Negotiating Infrastructural Capture and Autonomy in Data-Driven News Distribution10
Complicating the Resilience Model: A Four-Country Study About Misinformation10
Points of Contact Between Activism, Populism, and Fandom on Social Media10
A Discursive Evolution: Trade Publications Explain News Deserts to United States Journalists10
Homophily and Polarization in Twitter Political Networks: A Cross-Country Analysis10
Standardized Sampling for Systematic Literature Reviews (STAMP Method): Ensuring Reproducibility and Replicability9
A Case Study: Mada Masr—A Progressive Voice in Egypt and Beyond9
Meet Bob and Offset Your Flight: Optimising Explainer Videos to Promote Voluntary Carbon Offsetting9
Deepfakes on Twitter: Which Actors Control Their Spread?9
Spaces, Places, and Geographies of Public Spheres: Exploring Dimensions of the Spatial Turn9
What’s “Up Next”? Investigating Algorithmic Recommendations on YouTube Across Issues and Over Time8
Digital Literacies as Socially Situated Pedagogical Processes: Genealogically Understanding Media, Information, and Digital Literacies8
Digital Competencies for New Journalistic Work in Media Outlets: A Systematic Review8
Exploring Parents’ Everyday Experiences With Digital Media: Barriers and Opportunities for Digital Inclusion8
The Frontlines and Margins: Gendered Care and Covid-19 in the Indian Media8
Adolescents’ Understanding of the Model of Sponsored Content of Social Media Influencer Instagram Stories8
Social Media Influencers’ Role in Shaping Political Opinions and Actions of Young Audiences8
Investigating News Deserts on the Content Level: Geographical Diversity in Swiss News Media8
Political Microtargeting and Online Privacy: A Theoretical Approach to Understanding Users’ Privacy Behaviors8
Introduction of the Digital Gaming Relationship8
Bread and Plots: Conspiracy Theories and the Rhetorical Style of Political Influencer Communities on YouTube8
Cross-Media Alliances to Stop Disinformation: A Real Solution?8
Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Media Innovation and Change8
Protest Event Analysis Under Conditions of Limited Press Freedom: Comparing Data Sources7
Developing Performance Tests to Measure Digital Skills: Lessons Learned From a Cross-National Perspective7
Representing Trust in Digital Journalism7
ProPublica’s Data Journalism: How Multidisciplinary Teams and Hybrid Profiles Create Impactful Data Stories7
Augmented Landscapes of Empathy: Community Voices in Augmented Reality Campaigns7
Exploring Media Literacy Formation at the Intersection of Family, School, and Peers7
Truth in the Crossfire: The Case of Ethiopia and Fact-Checking in Authoritarian Contexts7
Politicisation of the Domestic: Populist Narratives About Covid-19 Among Influencers7
Fact-Checkers on the Fringe: Investigating Methods and Practices Associated With Contested Areas of Fact-Checking7
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Editorial: New Forms of Media Work and Its Organizational and Institutional Conditions6
Sympathy for the Devil: Serial Mediation Models for Toxicity, Community, and Retention6
Why Do People Return to Video Platforms? Millennials and Centennials on TikTok6
The Engagement Imperative: Experiences of Communication Practitioners’ Brand Work in the Music Industry6
Children’s News Media as a Space for Learning About Difference6
‘A Shared Reality between a Journalist and the Audience’: How Live Journalism Reimagines News Stories6
Digital Media and Younger Audiences6
EU Representations in Portuguese Media and Populism: Embodying Political Antipodes?6
Wellbeing Amid Digital Risks: Implications of Digital Risks, Threats, and Scams on Users’ Wellbeing6
Digital In- and Exclusion in Everyday Life: Practices and Literacies Across the Lifespan6
Contemporary Research on Gender and Media: It’s All Political6
Intergenerational Perspectives on Media and Fake News During Covid-19: Results From Online Intergenerational Focus Groups6
The Voice of Silence: Patterns of Digital Participation Among Palestinian Women in East Jerusalem6
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Content Analysis From a Gender Perspective of Comments Received by Spanish Science YouTubers6
The Banality of Digital Reputation: A Visual Ethnography of Young People, Reputation, and Social Media6
Combating Disinformation or Reinforcing Cognitive Bias: Effect of Weibo Poster’s Location Disclosure6
Mapping the Inclusion of Children and Youth With Disabilities in Media Literacy Research6
Dive Into the Past: Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Represented in Chinese Mobile Games6
Between Calls for Action and Narratives of Denial: Climate Change Attention Structures on Twitter6
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Can Pop Culture Allay Resentment? Japan’s Influence in China Today5
Charting the Impacts of Media Discourses on the European Integration Project5
The EU Approach to Safeguard Children’s Rights on Video-Sharing Platforms: Jigsaw or Maze?5
Framing Nuclearity: Online Media Discourses in Lithuania5
Critical Theory and Being Critical: Connections and Contradictions5
United in Grief? Emotional Communities Around the Far-Right Terrorist Attack in Hanau5
Nano-Influencers Edutubers: Perspective of Centennial Generation Families in Spain5
Political Influencers on YouTube: Business Strategies and Content Characteristics5
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Editorial: Networks and Organizing Processes in Online Social Media5
Advertising on Video-Sharing Platforms in the Toy and Food Categories in Spain5
Researching the Complex, Hybrid, and Liminal Nature of Contemporary Promotional Cultures5
Screens as Battlefields: Fact-Checkers’ Multidimensional Challenges in Debunking Russian-Ukrainian War Propaganda5
Regional Facts Matter: A Comparative Perspective of Sub-State Fact-Checking Initiatives in Europe5
Editorial: Populism in and Through Online Communities5
Insidiously Trivial: How the Political Meme Format Drives Down Corrective Intent5
Re-Defining Borders Online: Russia’s Strategic Narrative on Internet Sovereignty5
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Watching the Watchdogs: Using Transparency Cues to Help News Audiences Assess Information Quality5
Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere5
Backed Into a Corner: Structural Changes That Lead to Local News Deserts5
Contentious Politics in a Digital World: Studies on Social Activism, Protest, and Polarization5
Editorial: Media and Migration in the Covid-19 Pandemic—Discourses, Policies, and Practices in Times of Crisis5
Career, Covid-19, and Care: (Gendered) Impacts of the Pandemic on the Work of Communication Scholars5
Policy Framing Through Policy Branding: International Maritime Organization, Climate Change, and Twitter/X5
Framing Migration During the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa: A 12-Month Media Monitoring Project5
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Breaking the Rules: Zodwa Wabantu and Postfeminism in South Africa4
Organizations as Innovations: Examining Changes in Journalism Through the Lens of Newly-Emerging Organizations4
Why We Should Distinguish Between Mobilization and Participation When Investigating Social Media4
Older Adults Learning Digital Skills Together: Peer Tutors’ Perspectives on Non-Formal Digital Support4
Resisting Perceived Interference in Journalistic Autonomy: The Study of Public Service Media in Slovakia4
Digital Futures: A Signal-Based Approach to Inclusive Digital Youth Work for Socially Vulnerable Youth4
The Geography of Newspaper Circulations: A Spatial Taxonomy of “News(Paper) Deserts” in the United States4
Uninvited Dinner Guests: A Theoretical Perspective on the Antagonists of Journalism Based on Serres’ Parasite4
The War in Ukraine and the EU’s Geopolitical Role in Spanish Media Discourses4
Symbiosis or Precarity? Digital Platforms’ Role on Australian Digital-Native Journalism and Their Funding Models4
Is Personality Key? Persuasive Effects of Prior Attitudes and Personality in Political Microtargeting4
News Deserts: A Research Agenda for Addressing Disparities in the United States4
Direct Replication in Experimental Communication Science: A Conceptual and Practical Exploration4
The Challenges of Replicating Volatile Platform-Data Studies: Replicating Schatto-Eckrodt et al. (2020)4
Securing the Future of UK Public-Interest News: Navigating Change With Foresight and Innovation4
Advocacy and Activism in Sports Podcasts: Expanding Journalistic Roles4
The Evolution of Government Intervention in the Mediterranean Media System: Spain, France, and Portugal4
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The Privacy Paradox by Proxy: Considering Predictors of Sharenting4
Community Internet of Things as Mobile Infrastructure: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities4
Manufacturing Populism: Digitally Amplified Vernacular Authority4
Advancing Research into Dark Participation4
(Dis)Information Literacy: A Democratic Right and Duty of All Citizens4
Immigrant Influencers on TikTok: Diverse Microcelebrity Profiles and Algorithmic (In)Visibility4
Community-Building on Bilibili: The Social Impact of Danmu Comments4
Comparing Media Systems: A New Critical Academic Reading4
Are We Replicating Yet? Reproduction and Replication in Communication Research4
Insidiously Trivial: Meme Format Reduces Perceived Influence and Intent to Debate Partisan Claims4
Experiencing Political Advertising Through Social Media Logic: A Qualitative Inquiry4
The Bright and Dark Side of Eudaimonic Emotions: A Conceptual Framework4
Frontline Knowledge: Digital Media Literacy of Older Adults in Ukraine4
Inspired to Adopt: The Role of Social Norms in Media Inspiration4
An Overview of the Fake News Phenomenon: From Untruth-Driven to Post-Truth-Driven Approaches4
Pre-Truth: Fake News, Semiological Guerrilla Warfare, and Some Other Media and Communication “Revolutions”4
Can’t Fix This? Innovation, Social Change, and Solutionism in Design Thinking4
Can an Awareness Campaign Boost the Effectiveness of Influencer Marketing Disclosures in YouTube Videos?4
Strengthening Responsible Journalism Through Self-Efficacious Learning-Oriented Media Literacy Interventions4
Beyond Numeracy, a Data Literacy Topical Scoping Review (2011–2023)4
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